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Re: Bitcoin bounty 0.5 btc challenge
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 06/09/2021, 14:17:01 UTC
1BBwZVdBjoPxotHfrKLpHJBSy7vmc2pjex ( which is out of range address)
How's that out of range? By decoding the transaction and the script, I see that it has a valid uncompressed public key which is:
Code:
045601570cb47f238d2b0286db4a990fa0f3ba28d1a319f5e7cf55c2a2444da7ccc136c1dc0cbeb930e9e298043589351d81d8e0bc736ae2a1f5192e5e8b061d58

And a valid signature:
Code:
3044022016f0c4b83a70025ed9c2245f233fd7e30241c168df4f65e7ba206a54207fa2a702204a3fe2d92516ceb60691d42e86bc3d7c209fd224855ede2a86e34daad9e2f21b01




Again, an address can't be out of a certain range. It could be any encoding between - 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 - and - FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. Remember, an address is just an encoding of a hash.